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Slices of Life By Jill Pertler-Losing each other at the home improvement store

My husband and I had to make a trip to the home improvement store last weekend for one item. Just one. We started out together, but after a cursory period found ourselves involuntarily separated. We were looking for lye. I make soap, and you can’t make soap without lye. Usually I order my ...

Q&A: E-Verify With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

Q: What is the E-Verify program? A: The E-Verify program updated employment verification measures that were enacted with comprehensive immigration reform signed into law by President Reagan. For the first time in our history, Congress made it a federal crime to employ undocumented workers. Ten ...

Looking Back

30 Years Ago March 3, 1989 March 1989 marks 30 years of business for Goos Implement Ltd. Irwin Goos started the business in Gladbrook March of 1959. He bought the Wm. Dahms blacksmith shop on Washington Street and opened Goos Welding and Repair. Greta Klink will celebrate her 90th birthday. ...

Slices of Life By Jill Pertler-Losing each other at the home improvement store

My husband and I had to make a trip to the home improvement store last weekend for one item. Just one. We started out together, but after a cursory period found ourselves involuntarily separated. We were looking for lye. I make soap, and you can’t make soap without lye. Usually I order my ...

District 72 Update By State Representative Dean Fisher

Thursday, February 21, 2019 As work progresses in committees we have begun to debate a few bills on the floor of the House as well. These are generally non-controversial bills that pass unanimously or with only a few no votes. These bills have included increases in mileage reimbursement for ...

Q&A: E-Verify With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

Q: What is the E-Verify program? A: The E-Verify program updated employment verification measures that were enacted with comprehensive immigration reform signed into law by President Reagan. For the first time in our history, Congress made it a federal crime to employ undocumented workers. Ten ...

Looking Back

30 Years Ago February 24, 1989 Randy Beichley was chosen as the 1989 Outstanding Young Farmer at the Jaycee Winter All-State February 4. At the regular meeting of the Gladbrook City Council, the first reading to adopt a resolution for an economic development grant program for the purpose of ...

Slices of Life By Jill Pertler-Point of view

I look up to my husband. Always have. Literally. He is about eight inches taller them me, which gives me a straight view up and into his nose. When he has the occasional booger - and who among us doesn’t - I am often the first to see it. And point it out. It’s all in the name of helping ...